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Lindsay Smith
I am a recent graduate from Northern Arizona University with a Bachelor’s of Science degree in Mathematics. I am currently earning my Master’s of Science degree through Arizona State University in Program Evaluation and Data Analytics. I am searching for a data science position that allows me to build tools using visualization and machine learning to help people explore and understand their data.
Education
M.S. Program Evaluation and Data Analytics
Phoenix, AZ
Arizona State University
current - 2023
B.S. Mathematics
Flagstaff, AZ
Northern Arizona University
2023 - 2019
- Minior in Statistics
- Cum Laude
Selected Positions
Manager, Operations
Flagstaff, AZ
Northern Arizona University
current - 2024
- Manage hiring for Staff, Faculty, and Student Workers for the College
- Manage the schedule of classes
- Supervise Student Support Services and the Dean’s Office Front Desk student workers
Administrative Services Assistant
Flagstaff, AZ
Northern Arizona University
2024 - 2023
- Maintain computer and equipment inventory
- Maintain key distribution and building access
- Provide support to the finance team with hiring and supplemental pay processes
Lead Math Jack
Flagstaff, AZ
Northern Arizona University
2022
- Supervise incoming Math Jacks, resolve conflicts, and provide support
- Take on extra responsibility to support upper-level staff
- Work the front desk in the Lumberjack Mathematics Center
Math Jack
Flagstaff, AZ
Northern Arizona University
2022 - 2020
- Tutor for MAT 100, MAT 108, MAT 114, & MAT 125 students in an open lab setting
- TA for various classes listed above
- Graded daily homework assignments
Front Desk Assistant
Flagstaff, AZ
Northern Arizona University
2022 - 2021
- Assist students, faculty, and upper-level management as it relates to the Math Department
- Serve as the point of contact for the Math department
- Facilitate general building management and order office suppies
Selected Writing
Using AWK and R to Parse 25tb
N/A
LiveFreeOrDichotomize.com
2019
- Story of parsing large amounts of genomics data.
- Provided advice for dealing with data much larger than disk.
- Reached top of HackerNews.
Multimorbidity Explorer | A shiny app for exploring EHR and biobank data
N/A
RStudio::conf 2019
2019
- Contributed Poster. Authored with Yaomin Xu.
Taking a network view of EHR and Biobank data to find explainable multivariate patterns
N/A
Vanderbilt Biostatistics Seminar Series
2019
- University wide seminar series.
Classifying physical activity from smartphone data
N/A
RStudio Tensorflow Blog
2018
- Walk through of training a convolutional neural network to achieve state of the art recognition of activities from accelerometer data.
- Contracted article.
The United States of Seasons
N/A
LiveFreeOrDichotomize.com
2018
- GIS analysis of weather data to find the most ‘seasonal’ locations in United States
- Used Bayesian regression methods for smoothing sparse geospatial data.
A year as told by fitbit
N/A
LiveFreeOrDichotomize.com
2017
- Analyzing a full years worth of second-level heart rate data from wearable device.
- Demonstrated visualization-based inference for large data.
MCMC and the case of the spilled seeds
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LiveFreeOrDichotomize.com
2017
- Full Bayesian MCMC sampler running in your browser.
- Coded from scratch in vanilla Javascript.
The Great Student Migration
N/A
The New York Times
2016
- Most shared and discussed article from the New York Times for August 2016.
Wildfires are Getting Worse, The New York Times
N/A
The New York Times
2016
- GIS analysis and modeling of fire patterns and trends
- Data in collaboration with NASA and USGS
An Agent Based Model of Mysis Migration
N/A
International Association of Great Lakes Research Conference
2015
- Authored with Brian O’Malley, Sture Hansson, and Jason Stockwell.